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08/05/2024
The Victorian Society is very pleased to announce James Hughes as its new Director.
24/04/2024
On the 24th April 1974 our founder members in West Yorkshire created a regional group of the Victorian Society to champion and protect their local endangered Victorian and Edwardian heritage.
19/04/2024
This unspoilt former lodge is now a Grade II-listed building.
09/04/2024
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15/03/2024
This year is the bicentenary of the birth of George Edmund Street (1824 – 1881), the architect of the Royal Courts of Justice. From March to November, the Victorian Society, in association with St James the Less, Street’s Grade I listed church in Pimlico, London, are hosting a series of talks, walks, visits and a symposium in London, East Yorkshire and the West Midlands, to celebrate his work and achievements as a leader of the Gothic Revival. The Society’s magazine, The Victorian, devoted its latest edition to the architect.
05/03/2024
The Victorian Society are calling on the public to oppose the partial demolition of George Eliot's farmstead. Agricultural buildings associated with the childhood home of the 19th-century writer would be destroyed and replaced by an enlarged ‘replica’ housing the George Eliot Visitor Centre and Museum.
04/03/2024
The Victorian Society is seeking a new Director to start immediately.
The consultation we were promised at the height of our campaigning in 2023 to stop the demolition of unlisted historic buildings under permitted development rights is underway.
Arts and Heritage Minister Lord Parkinson's announcement on 12th February, of Listing Protection for four Gas Lamps in Covent Garden, heralds the possible protection of more of the historic lights.
10/02/2024
Tudor Grange in Solihull has been awarded a prestigious conservation award for a restoration fit for Solihull kings and queens.
08/02/2024
After almost 4 years with the Victorian Society, Joe O’Donnell has moved on from his role as Director to focus on project managing the restoration of his new home.
07/02/2024
When the Victorian Society learned that Worcester Council was planning for an important area, including a Victorian railway hub from the 1850s, to be developed, including the demolition of two historic goods sheds, we applied for listing for this significant part of railway history. Now there's a chance to have your say about the future of Shrub Hill.
Vice President Sir David Cannadine and the Victorian Society’s Birmingham and West Midland’s group presented the plaque to their 2020 Conservation Award winner on the 19th January 2024.
25/01/2024
The Victorian Society is extremely disappointed that, despite its strong objection, Chichester District Council has approved the demolition of a house designed by a significant Victorian architect in a conservation area.
The sun has long-since set on the British Empire, but its architecture still casts a long shadow. The Victorian Society’s 2024 Online Winter Talk series ‘Victorian and Edwardian Architecture in the Wider British World’ will visit Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Malaya and New Zealand, with several of the talks coming from those countries.